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Homelands & Marketplace Present Series on Global Work
Each WORKING profile brings us deep into the life of a worker in the global economy. This month, Kelly McEvers introduces us to Samanta, a sex worker in the oil boomtown of Baku, on the Caspian Sea. All migrants have their stories. Hers is more harrowing than most. More...
Alan Weisman's World Without Us is TIME Book of the Year
What would happen to our planet if humans were to vanish? Alan Weisman provides the answers in his best-selling book The World Without Us. TIME and Entertainment Weekly rated it #1 in nonfiction for 2007. It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Sandy Tolan's Lemon Tree Book Wins Christopher Award
Sandy Tolan's The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East was cited for "affirming the highest values of the human spirit." A finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award, the book grew out of a documentary Sandy produced for NPR's Fresh Air.
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"Against the Odds" Airs on Radio Stations Nationwide
Against the Odds, a project headed by Newsweek columnist Ellis Cose, launched with an article in Newsweek, a web package, and a radio special produced and edited by Jon Miller and distributed by PRI. Against the Odds tells stories of people facing and overcoming adversity.
Global Warming Collaboration Wins George Polk Award
A team of UC Berkeley journalism students led by Sandy Tolan won a George Polk Award for Early Signs, a series of reports on global warming from around the world. Radio pieces aired on Living on Earth and American RadioWorks, and articles appeared on Salon.com.
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Sandy
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Sandy Tolan has reported from more than 30 countries, and has won many awards for his radio work and his writing. The author of two books, he's an associate professor of journalism at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. More...
Alan
Weisman
Alan Weisman has written five books, including the best-selling The World Without Us. His work has appeared in Harper's, Discover, Atlantic Monthly, NY Times Magazine, and LA Times Magazine. He teaches journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona.
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Jonathan
Miller
Jonathan Miller is Homelands' executive director and executive producer of the WORKING and Worlds of Difference series. A longtime freelancer for newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV, Jon is an Affiliated Scholar at the Polson Institute for Global Development at Cornell University. More...
Cecilia Vaisman
Cecilia Vaisman has reported widely on the environment, human rights, race and ethnicity, and AIDS. A former staff producer for NPR's All Things Considered, she is a Visiting Fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. More...
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